Recent Comics Reviews

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Tuesday, August 18 2009

Soul Kiss #1-5

By Kevin M. Brettauer

A soul is a terrible thing to waste, but then again, time and money are terrible things to waste on stories that fail to own up their promise.

Thursday, August 13 2009

Prayer Requested

By Sara Cole

Despite its aesthetic slickness and original subject matter, Prayer Requested comes of feeling a little uninspired and flat.

Tuesday, August 11 2009

Melvin Monster

By Sarah Boslaugh

Melvin lives in an inverted universe where parents complain about television programs which don’t include enough crime and violence and kids worry that Melvin will give their neighborhood a good reputation.

Thursday, August 6 2009

Marvel Illustrated The Iliad

By Shawn O'Rourke

Thomas, with the help of an amazing artist, has managed to create and adaptation of the classic war story still that manages to capture the glory and subtle elegance of Homer’s masterpiece.

Tuesday, August 4 2009

32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics

By Erik Hinton

32 Stories effectively demonstrates how the dolorous ‘90s diary comic might pull itself out of the mire of its similar contemporary pieces. It is Tomine’s command of form that ultimately redeems the genre.

Thursday, July 30 2009

Moon Knight: The Death of Marc Spector

By shathley Q

The Moon Knight we should not remember, but still do.

Tuesday, July 28 2009

The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders

By Sara Cole

So what is it about The Photographer that makes it seem so particularly effective in its story-telling? One reason may be that it is not exactly a comic book.

Thursday, July 23 2009

Low Moon

By Ian Chant

Featuring tawdry sex, alien abductions, existential crises, betrayal, and a hundred and one different varieties of murder, this is a book that pretty much has it all.

Monday, July 20 2009

Orbiter

By Teresa Jusino

Orbiter is perhaps a perfect comic for this period in American history, when a current of optimism can be felt within the Obama administration.

Thursday, July 16 2009

Chicken with Plums

By Erik Hinton

Before even opening Chicken with Plums it is apparent that the book will have to go beyond the cultural seduction of Persepolis if Satrapi’s career is to become anything other than a one-note veil dance.

Tuesday, July 14 2009

Tank Girl One and Tank Girl Two

By Sara Cole

There’s something about Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s Tank Girl re-printed collections that feels like a time capsule.

Thursday, July 9 2009

Punisher: Year One

By Ian Chant

This collection proves that not all artistic relics warrant being unearthed.

Tuesday, July 7 2009

Moomin Book Four

By Erik Hinton

Moomin owes much of its unique brilliance to its inversion of traditional argumentation. Whereas it is not unusual for an essay to recourse to fantastic thought experiment to complement its strict reasoning, Moomin builds strictly verisimilar situations out of an aesthetics of wild illogic.

Thursday, June 25 2009

Ghost Rider

By shathley Q

Corporate compromise or faulty execution the tale of a Ghost Rider addict cannot be told.

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